Promotion and Visibility Committee

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This page is designed to tell you everything you need to know about VisCom and what we do.

Our Mission

The mission of the Promotion and Visibility Committee ("VisCom") is to spread word and build a strong recognition of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, foundation projects, and the use of open source in geospatial applications in general. We do this by:

  • participating at events, tradeshows, and conferences
  • creation and use of OSGeo marketing materials (brochures, logos, etc)
  • aiding in the creation and dissemination of case studies, white papers, etc
  • outreach to other organizations, companies, group, media, etc


Committee Logistics

The official committee web site is here. (This wiki is more likely to be current and accurate, however.)

The VisCom project committee consists of:

Got an idea? Interested in joining? Just let us know!

We generally meet on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC (8am PST), via conference call and on the #osgeo IRC channel. Our meetings page: VisCom_Meetings

Our mailing list: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org (subscribe).


Press Releases

Got some news worthy of an OSGeo press release? Let us know! (our Press Release Process)

Past press releases:


Event Coordination

(tbd)


Formats, Copyright, License of Documents

The preferred format would probably be HTML, making it easy to create links and make it searchable using the OSGeo (CN) infrastructure. (Initial discussion and collaborative editing can be done in the Wiki). Please refrain from creating PPTs, PDFs or other closed formats while OpenDocument format will be appropriate for slides. Presentations would preferably be licensed as GNU FDL, CC (or appropriate alternative) to ensure that they are freely available (please use the discussion page registered at the top of this page).

Sticker, Caps, Promotion Stuff

We will want to think up some stuff to give away. This could be mugs, caps, t-shirts, etc. Probably will have to wait until the logo is done. Some slogan (slogans?) (all by Jody Garnett):

  • Built on OSGeo
  • OSGeo - Think way outside the box
  • OSGeo: It's a Spheroid get over it
  • OSGeo.org : Spatialize your mind (Alain Grignon)
  • see also: Motto discussion for many more of these

Moved to Current events

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